Crock Pot Turkey Breast with Cranberry sauce

Name: Crock Pot Turkey Breast with Cranberry sauce
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 4 h
Total time: 4 h 10 min
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 3 pound boneless, skinless frozen turkey breast thawed; 2 tbsp unsalted butter softened; 1/2 cup orange juice; 14 ounce can whole berry cranberry sauce sub tart cherry jam, applesauce, or pineapple chutney; 2 tbsp pure maple syrup sub honey; 1 tsp ground sage; 1 tsp ground mustard powder; 1 tsp garlic powder; 2 ounce envelope onion soup mix; 2 tbsp cornstarch; 2 tbsp cold water

16 steps

Prep:10minCook:4h

Enjoy turkey all year long, not just on Thanksgiving, with this flavorful Crock Pot Turkey with Cranberry recipe. It's sweet and savory and so easy to make with only a few pantry ingredients.

Updated at: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 12:47:08 GMT

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Ingredients

4 servings

3 poundboneless skinless frozen turkey breast

thawed

2 Tbspunsalted butter

softened

½ cuporange juice

14 ouncewhole berry cranberry sauce

can, sub tart cherry jam, applesauce, or pineapple chutney

2 Tbsppure maple syrup

sub honey

1 tspground sage

1 tspground mustard powder

1 tspgarlic powder

2 ounceonion soup mix

envelope

2 Tbspcornstarch

2 Tbspwater

cold

Instructions

Step 1

Spray the crockpot with nonstick cooking spray.

Step 2

Add the thawed turkey breast to the crockpot, leave the netting on the turkey.

Step 3

Spread the butter over the top of the turkey. Sprinkle over the seasonings.

Step 4

Add the orange juice, canned cranberries and maple syrup.

Step 5

Cook on low 5 hours or high 3 hours.

Step 6

Place the turkey on a serving plate. Remove the netting. Cut into slices.

Step 7

Strain the juices into a saucepan over medium high heat. Mix together the cornstarch and cold water to make a slurry and pour into the saucepan. Whisk together over medium high heat until the gravy is thickened.

Step 8

Pour over the sliced turkey.

Notes

Step 9

I'm using a skinless, boneless turkey breast. You can use a bone-in breast, you may need to cook longer depending on your crock pot. Just check your turkey with a meat thermometer to ensure it cooked thoroughly before eating.

Step 10

Thaw your turkey a couple of days in the fridge beforehand.

Step 11

3 pound turkey breast will feed 2-4 people.

Step 12

The "netting" is on the turkey meat, it's under the plastic packaging. Remove the plastic packaging before cooking. After cooking, remove the netting and discard.

Step 13

If you don’t want to use cranberry sauce you could try apple sauce, tart cherry jam or pineapple chutney.

Step 14

Replace maple syrup with honey

Step 15

Try pineapple juice or papaya juice in place of the orange juice.

Step 16

I’ve never cooked a frozen solid turkey breast, I'm just not a big fan of cooking frozen meats. However many commenters write that you can cook the turkey from frozen for 6-8 hours on low- I cannot confirm if this works. If cooking from frozen just use a meat thermometer to ensure the turkey is at internal temp 165°F before eating.